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Product Description: France dominated the European furniture scene as her extraordinary cultural influences were much encouraged, if not created, by the aspirations of the two Napoleons who wished to recreate that country's earlier grandeur. This is not to underestimate, however, other influences such as Turkish, Moorish, African, Far and Mid-Eastern, which filtered in through neighbouring European countries and were often incorporated into furniture designs throughout the Continent...read more

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9781851490011 | 2 edition (Antique Collectors Club Ltd, June 1, 1985), cover price $89.50 | About this edition: France dominated the European furniture scene as her extraordinary cultural influences were much encouraged, if not created, by the aspirations of the two Napoleons who wished to recreate that country's earlier grandeur.

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By Christopher Payne (editor)

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9781850296492, titled "Sotheby's Concise Encyclopedia of Furniture" | Reprint edition (Antique Collectors Club Ltd, March 1, 1995), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Book by

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The world's foremost auction house presents a comprehensive guide to furniture, covering all major stylistic movements including classical, medieval, Baroque, contemporary, and art deco, and noting the influence of artistic trends on the craft
By Christopher Payne (editor) and Sotheby's (corporate author)

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9780060161415 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, October 1, 1989), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The world's foremost auction house presents a comprehensive guide to furniture, covering all major stylistic movements including classical, medieval, Baroque, contemporary, and art deco, and noting the influence of artistic trends on the craft

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Product Description: You may be lucky enough to own an antique mahogany highboy, but can you be sure it is 18th-century? How do you know if the handles and feet are original, and there are no replaced parts? Do you know whether it is North American, British or French? How about your favorite chest of drawers? Is it a desirable original 19th-century piece, or a reproduction? Miller's Collecting Furniture: The Facts At Your Fingertips answers all such questions and more...read more

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9781857328776 | Miller/Mitchell Beazley, October 1, 1996, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: You may be lucky enough to own an antique mahogany highboy, but can you be sure it is 18th-century?

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A comprehensive guide to the preparation, construction, and finishing skills for all scale models is formatted to enable modelers of differing interests and skill levels to sample the new materials and techniques.

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9780756754112 | Diane Pub Co, July 1, 2003, cover price $30.00
9780785806141 | Book Sales, November 1, 1996, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A comprehensive guide to the preparation, construction, and finishing skills for all scale models is formatted to enable modelers of differing interests and skill levels to sample the new materials and techniques.

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This guide contains all the essential information needed by a budding furniture collector, showing how to identify styles as well as individual pieces, how to avoid fakes and how to spot a bargain. Included are listings of auction houses, antiques centres and major antiques events.

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9781840000535 | 2 edition (Gardners Books, February 26, 1998), cover price $23.15 | About this edition: This guide contains all the essential information needed by a budding furniture collector, showing how to identify styles as well as individual pieces, how to avoid fakes and how to spot a bargain.

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Product Description: All over New York City, hidden behind unassuming historic facades, sits the gigantic machinery of the power stations that once moved the subways. For over a century, the 125,000-pound converters and related equipment of the substations remained largely unchanged, but in 1999 the last manually operated substation was shut down and since then they have been systematically dismantled and sold as scrap...read more

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9781568983554 | 1 edition (Princeton Architectural Pr, September 1, 2002), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: All over New York City, hidden behind unassuming historic facades, sits the gigantic machinery of the power stations that once moved the subways.

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By Christopher Payne (photographer)

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9780262013499 | 1 edition (Mit Pr, September 30, 2009), cover price $48.95

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Product Description: Detailed assessment of a complex subject, updated to include 300 new color illustrationsWhile French furniture dominates this work of reference, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polosh, Flemish, Dutch, Russian and Scandinavian examples are also includedThe sheer range and complexity of the subject of European furniture makes it impossible to adequately evaluate in anything less than this detailed and lavishly illustrated work...read more

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9781851496266 | Antique Collectors Club Ltd, August 16, 2013, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Detailed assessment of a complex subject, updated to include 300 new color illustrationsWhile French furniture dominates this work of reference, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polosh, Flemish, Dutch, Russian and Scandinavian examples are also includedThe sheer range and complexity of the subject of European furniture makes it impossible to adequately evaluate in anything less than this detailed and lavishly illustrated work.

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9781490425535 | Createspace Independent Pub, April 30, 2014, cover price $11.99

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Product Description: This book is an investigation into the economic policy formulation and practice of neoliberalism in Britain from the 1950s through to the financial crisis and economic downturn that began in 2007-8. It demonstrates that influential economists, such as F...read more

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9780415680110 | Routledge, December 13, 2011, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This book is an investigation into the economic policy formulation and practice of neoliberalism in Britain from the 1950s through to the financial crisis and economic downturn that began in 2007-8.

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9781138807792 | Routledge, June 19, 2014, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: This book is an investigation into the economic policy formulation and practice of neoliberalism in Britain from the 1950s through to the financial crisis and economic downturn that began in 2007-8.

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9780374135805 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, March 18, 2014, cover price $26.00

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9781250062352 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, March 3, 2015), cover price $16.00

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